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Ruth talks about #WiP’s recent trip to London. On Wednesday 24th Feb myself, Museum Development Officer Gemma Dhami and our very own Holly Beaumont-Wilkes set off for the big spoke to share with the townsfolk our good news and great tidings from the West Midlands. I had personally been invited (get me) to attend a Kids in Museums conference at […]

Young leader Navi Kaur blogs on the ups, downs and success of #OurStyle2015 Coming into the project a few weeks late, I immediately realised how incredibly important Our Style 2015 was to the organisers, Young Leaders and everyone else involved. From the word go there was a clear determination and desire for the project to […]

In October 2014 we brought together a group of 33 young people from across the West Midlands for a week long residential course at Ingestre Hall, Staffordshire. Led by Arts Connect WM in partnership Felix Pepler (Head of Centre at Ingestre Hall) the aim of the residential looked to engage young people as cultural leaders to provide their insights and reflections […]

We are committed to offering young people the chance to achieve an accreditation though working with us and offer a drop-in Arts Award sessions as part of our activities at The Drum and at our offices. The Drum We offer Arts Award Club one hour before Mon, Tues, Thurs and Sat activity commences (Arts Award […]

Part of our aim throughout both The Mystery Tour and The Past is Now programmes has been to produce a set of ‘top tips’ to help heritage venues and historic houses to better engage with young people. Based on our questions to young people, the evaluation of heritage venues they have visited, and previous Mystery Tour reports, […]

Join us for the #MysteryTour Christmas Spectacular. We have not one, not two but three special trips lined up as part of our #MysteryTour series in the run up to Christmas. 1) Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery Saturday 22nd November 2014, 11am-4pm Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery needs little introduction. It is a jewel in the city’s […]

Holly, WiP Administrator and Project Coordinator, reports on our recent nominations at the Youth Achievement Awards. The Wip-lings (Vicki, Jamie and myself) were honoured to be invited to The Youth Achievement Awards last Monday (10th November). After getting ourselves all glammed up and smart (Jamie bought a suit especially!) we hopped in a taxi and headed off. […]

We are looking forward to The Past Is Now, a free residential programme taking place from 27 – 31 October at Ingestre Hall. The exciting programme gives children and young people (aged 11 – 23 years) the opportunity have a say in arts, heritage and culture provision as well as being an amazing opportunity to […]

Work in Progress (WiP) has been commissioned by Make It Sustainable (MIS) to undertake a scoping study looking into the offer for young people and making skills at the Old Print Works in Balsall Heath. The consultancy will have five constituent stages where we will develop a clear understanding and deep background knowledge of the […]